The Japanese Software Industry: WHAT WENT WRONG AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM IT?
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Recent findings indicate that the Japanese IT sector increasingly lags the U.S. IT sector in software innovation and that this underlies Japan’s weakening competitive performance vis-à-vis U.S. IT. This article explores alternative explanations for this outcome and analyzes what explains the Japanese software industry’s trajectory. The sources are found in the late understanding of the transformational role of software and its value-creating potential as well as in the evolution of the industry’s structure. Finally, this article considers what policy makers in other nations might learn from the Japanese experience in building a more vibrant software industry. (
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